Prayer to Artemis

Hear me, O' Queen, famous daughter of Zeus; boisterous Titanis; illustrious archer; modest, illuminating, torch-bearing Goddess; child-delivering Diktina, giver of pain and deliverer from pain; ungirdled, loving huntress, free of cares; swift shooter of arrows, nature-loving, night-roaming; enclosed deliverer; manlike Orthia; giver of quick-birth; spirit of mortal nurture; divine Khthonia, killer of beasts; blessed spirit, who possesses the oak groves atop mountains, modest, deer-huntress; taming queen of all; good youth; You are the eternal, haunting of the woods; Cydonian, shape-shifting, protectoress of dogs; Come O' saviour Goddess, friend to all initiates, pleasantly bring the good fruits of the earth peace, love, beauty and health. May you banish illness and pain to the mountain peaks.